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There are many successful companies and start ups that use PHP. The same way they exist for other languages and platforms.

No start up became a unicorn because of the programming language they used.



With the possible exception of Clojure :). See Paul Graham on Lisp as the secret weapon.


What's the biggest Clojure start-up at the moment? Is it CircleCI?

Wal-Mart is pretty big into Clojure these days, but they were already huge.


Here in London there's Funding Circle and uSwitch. The Daily Mail (MailOnline) also uses quite a lot of Clojure.


Whatsapp.


whats whatsapp built on?


Erlang and FreeBSD




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